In 1979, Sir Michael Hill and his wife Christine opened their first jewellery store with a simple yet ground-breaking vision: to make fine jewellery accessible to everybody. 40 plus years later, we remain committed to creating quality jewellery for our customers to cherish for a lifetime. From 1979 through today and into our future, one value underpins all that we do: We’re for love.

An opportunity exists for an experienced Banking and Accounts Receivable Team Lead to join our Finance team. Reporting into the Shared Services Manager, this role is responsible for overseeing our Banking and Accounts Receivable teams. Working from our state of the art building based in Cannon Hill, we offer complimentary parking in addition to light open plan offices which encourages collaborative ideas and thinking.

As well as providing management and workload assistance to each team, this broad and challenging role also includes the following specific responsibilities across the two teams.

Team Management

• Overseeing a 10+ onshore and offshore team members, both transactional officers and financial accountants.
• Drive process improvements and automation to enhance efficiency.
• Lead and mentor and develop high performing team.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders.
• Finance SME contribution for system implementations or improvements.

Banking and Accounts Receivable

• Outstanding ledger reporting to internal stakeholders.
• Administrator duties for all bank & credit providers.
• Ensuring bank accounts across the retail and corporate sectors are reconciled monthly.
• Review and post journals raised by the team.
• Overseeing the reconciliation of the receivables and bank general ledger balances.
• Ensure corporate credit cards are processed and reconciled monthly.
• Ensure the petty cash system (Weel) used by stores is reconciled monthly.
• Overseeing gift cards administration, both for Michael Hill gift cards external combination cards sold at other retailers.
• Deposit collection management.

More About You

• Previous leadership experience in a similar role (+5 yrs).
• Degree qualifications in Accounting, Finance or Commerce preferred.
• Global experience with foreign currency and multinational businesses.
• ERP system experience (Microsoft Dynamics 365 or similar preferred).
• OCR system experience advantageous (AP Valet, Blackline or similar).
• Intermediate to advanced excel skills.
• Ability to build, lead and develop a high performing team.
• Ability to work with large amounts of data with a high attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills, building relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to work under pressure and organise work priorities to meet deadlines.

In return we offer: 

• Exposure to international accounting, tax and retail practices.
• Modern work environment with complimentary parking in Cannon Hill
• Generous discounts on jewellery for you, your family and friends
• Health and wellbeing support through a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
• Global benefits platform offering team discounts from hundreds of stores
• Be a key contributor to an international omni channel retail business.